We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUTMany people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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All this happened, more or less.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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